LISTS

See also Religion: Muslim and Religion: Sunni Muslim.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Shohreh Aghdashloo	Actor	11-May-1952		House of Sand and Fog
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	Head of State	28-Oct-1956		President of Iran
Fouad Ajami	Author	9-Sep-1945		Director of Middle East Studies, SAIS
Nouri al-Maliki	Head of State	c. 1950		Prime Minister of Iraq
Iyad Allawi	Head of State	1945		Iraqi Prime Minister, 2004-05
Bashar al-Assad	Head of State	11-Sep-1965		President of Syria
The Báb	Religion	20-Oct-1819	9-Jul-1850	Forerunner of Baha'i
Nabih Berri	Politician	28-Jan-1938		Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament
Hafez	Poet	1326	1389	Prominent Persian poet
Ibrahim al-Jaafari	Head of State	1947		Prime Minister of Iraq, 2005-06
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati	Politician	1926		Head of Iran's Guardian Council
Ayatollah Khamenei	Head of State	15-Jul-1939		Supreme leader of Iran
Yahya Khan	Head of State	4-Apr-1917	10-Aug-1980	President of Pakistan, ordered Bengali genocide
Mohammad Khatami	Head of State	29-Sep-1943		President of Iran, 1997-2005
Ayatollah Khomeini	Religion	24-Sep-1902	3-Jun-1989	Leader of Islamic Republic of Iran
Mohammed Mossadegh	Head of State	19-May-1882	5-Mar-1967	Prime Minister of Iran, 1951-53
Hassan Nasrallah	Terrorist	31-Aug-1960		Hezbollah Secretary-General
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	Head of State	25-Aug-1934		President of Iran, 1989-97
Muqtada al-Sadr	Military	12-Aug-1973		Militant Shiite Iraqi cleric
Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf	Government	1940		Iraqi Information Minister
Shah of Iran	Royalty	26-Oct-1919	27-Jul-1980	Last Shah of Iran
Hussain al-Shahristani	Government	1942		Iraqi Minister of Oil
Ayatollah al-Sistani	Religion	4-Aug-1929		Highest ranking Shia cleric in Iraq
Haifa Wehbe	Singer	c. 1974		The Arab world's Madonna
Fazlollah Zahedi	Head of State	1897	2-Sep-1963	Prime Minister of Iran, 1953-55
Asif Ali Zardari	Head of State	22-Jul-1955		President of Pakistan

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